Bruce lee

En el ao del Dragn, y en la hora del Dragn, entre las 5 y las 8 de la maana, nace en el Hospital Jackson Street de San Francisco, el da 27 de noviembre de 1940. Su padre, Lee Hoi Chuen, estaba de gira con una obra de la pera China Cantonesa en el continente americano; de ah que Bruce naciera en San Francisco. Grace Ho, la madre de Bruce, de ascendencia chino-alemana , puso a su nio de nombre Lee Jun Fan, que significa Protector de San Francisco, pero durante los primeros meses le llamaban el Pequeo Fnix, que en chino es un nombre femenino. Pretendan con ello confundir a los espritus malignos que roban al primer varn cuando ha oscurecido. Fue la enfermera Mara Glover quien le puso su nombre en ingls, Bruce, cuya existencia l no supo hasta doce aos ms tarde al entrar en una escuela catlica, La Salle de Hong Kong. Su madre era catlica. Su primera aparicin cinematogrfica, segn Bruce, fue a los dos meses de edad y a los seis [cita requerida] tambin particip en Tears of San Francisco (Lgrimas de San Francisco) . En 1946, cuando Bruce contaba nicamente con 6 aos fue introducido en la industria cinematogrfica de Hong Kong gracias a unos amigos de la familia. Tras una pequea prueba el pequeo fue aceptado. La pelcula se titul Birth of Mankind (El nacimiento de la humanidad) y se trataba de una pelcula melodramtica que estaba de moda entonces en Hong Kong. Posteriormente Bruce rod otras trece pelculas del mismo corte; en todas ellas figur su nombre artstico, Li Shiu Loong, que significa el Pequeo Dragn. The Kid es la nica pelcula en la que trabaj con su padre, pero curiosamente no intervienen los dos en ninguna escena juntos. Durante su niez, o ms bien su adolescencia, Bruce fue un pandillero; se dedicaba a pelearse con otras pandillas, llevaban armas, cadenas. Pero un da se pregunt qu pasara si no tuviera el apoyo de la banda y se metiera en una pelea; entonces decidi aprender Wing Chun, un estilo de Kung Fu. Aunque, su primer contacto con las artes marciales fue de la mano de su propio padre, Li Hoi Chuen, que le ense las bases del Tai Chi Chuan, con el nico fin de [cita requerida] apartarle del camino de la violencia. Bruce conoca a un chico de su edad, o poco mayor, William Cheung, que siempre andaba metido en peleas y nunca perda. Un da Bruce le pregunt por ello y le coment que era debido a su arte. William le propuso aprender Wing Chun y Bruce acept. El comportamiento de Bruce cuando entr por primera vez a la academia de Yip Man no fue todo lo respetuoso que debiera haber sido, sobre todo tratndose de un muchacho oriental, por lo que Yip Man decidi que Bruce no estaba capacitado para aprender un arte como el Wing Chun, y as se lo comunicaron por medio de William Cheung. Bruce decidi volver al da siguiente con humildad [cita requerida] y respeto, y Yip Man le dio una oportunidad. Bruce estuvo entre tres y cuatro aos aprendiendo Wing Chun bajo la tutela de Yip Man, aunque fue de la mano de su alumno Wong Shun Leung como aprendi. Bruce fue inscrito en el colegio ingls de San Francisco; por aquellos tiempos haba torneos interescolares puesto que se trataba de colegios ingleses, donde se realizaban torneos de boxeo occidental. Bruce decidi tomar parte en uno de ellos, que se celebr en el colegio de St. George, y lo gan [cita requerida] utilizando las tcnicas que conoca, el Wing Chun.
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Retorno a Estados Unidos

A los dieciocho aos abandon Hong Kong para trasladarse a su pas de nacimiento, Estados Unidos, y reclamar su nacionalidad. Algunas versiones dicen que el padre de Bruce se vio obligado a tomar esta decisin porque tema que finalmente su hijo se uniera a la mafia china, la Trada china. De esta forma, Bruce se embarcaba el 3 de diciembre de 1958 en el [cita requerida] carguero Daisy May, con un billete de 3 clase y 100 dlares. La primera ciudad que visit fue San Francisco, la ciudad que le vio nacer y donde deba reclamar su nacionalidad. Su padre, Li Hoi Chuen, contact con unos familiares para que Bruce pudiera quedarse una temporada; a cambio Bruce deba trabajar. El trabajo no le gust mucho, pues se trataba de lavar platos, por lo que lo abandon rpidamente y comenz a dar clases para poder subsistir. Posteriormente se traslad a otro estado, Washington, a la ciudad de Seattle, donde trabajara en el restaurante de una vieja amiga de la familia, Ruby Chow. All Bruce Lee se haba instalado un saco y un Dummy de madera para poder entrenar siempre que el tiempo se lo permita, aunque los vecinos se quejaban del ruido que haca cuando entrenaba y tuvo que dejarlo. Como no tena amigos, comenz a asistir a las reuniones de una sociedad china, donde haba gente que tambin practicaba Kung Fu y otros estilos del norte de China, en los que predominaba el uso de las piernas, uso que Bruce desconoca puesto que el Wing Chun trabaja piernas a un nivel muy bajo. La sociedad decidi dar una demostracin y as Bruce pudo conocer al que sera uno de sus mejores amigos all en Seattle, Jesse Glover. Jesse siempre haba estado interesado en las artes marciales (haba hecho judo), pero cuando vio a Bruce sinti que deba entrenar con l. Bruce acept la propuesta de ensearle. El primer lugar donde entrenaron fue el saln comedor del apartamento de Jesse Glover. En su primer encuentro Bruce pidi a Jesse que le mostrase todo lo que supiera de Kung Fu. Jesse no haba entrenado nunca Kung Fu con un maestro; todos los conocimientos que posea los haba sacado de un libro de James Yimm Lee. Bruce le pidi que le mostrase el libro y despus de pasar hojendolo un buen rato le hizo saber que el estilo mostrado perteneca a la familia Hung, y que l lo haba practicado en alguna ocasin en Hong Kong, pues era un estilo muy conocido all. Ms tarde, Jesse tuvo la oportunidad de viajar a California con un par de amigos. El objetivo principal de Jesse era visitar a James Y. Lee. Una vez en Oakland, fueron al domicilio de James y se presentaron dicindole que le conocan por el libro que James haba escrito. ste les invit a pasar y enseguida comenz a mostrarles sus conocimientos. Esta visita llegara a ser determinante en la vida de Bruce, pues facilit que Bruce Lee y James se conociera.

Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute

En Seattle, Bruce acept a un nuevo estudiante, que se trataba de Ed Hart, compaero de habitacin de Jesse Glover y esto fue la chispa para que Bruce aceptara ms y ms alumnos, de manera que Jesse y Ed convencieron a Bruce de que cobrase por sus clases. Al poco tiempo tuvieron que buscar un local, que pronto se les qued pequeo. Por ese tiempo conoci a Taky Kimura, que lleg a ser el primer instructor asistente de Bruce en el Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, nombre con el que bautiz a su Kwoon. Allan Joe, alumno de James Y. Lee, fue a visitar a Bruce. Corra el ao 1962, y Bruce estaba estudiando filosofa en la Universidad de Seattle. Bruce invit a Joe a ver algunas de las tcnicas de Wing Chun en el manequn de madera que tena en el patio trasero del restaurante de Ruby Chow. Allan Joe qued impresionado y pens que a James Lee le ocurrira otro tanto si lo viera. Tras esto, James llam desde Oakland a Bruce preguntndole si

poda hacerle una visita para ensearle algo de su Kung Fu; acept, al considerarlo una buena oportunidad para extender sus enseanzas. A la semana siguiente march para Oakland, alojndose en casa de James. All tuvo ocasin de conocer a Wally Jay con quien pudo intercambiar conocimientos y aprender algo sobre las tcnicas de agarre. James tena su garaje repleto de mecanismos para entrenar inventados por l. All estuvieron practicando y Bruce le dio algunas sugerencias sobre cmo mejorar estos aparatos. En un viaje posterior Bruce conoci a otros dos artistas marciales, que con el tiempo seran los ms famosos de Estados Unidos, Ralph Castro y Ed Parker, con quienes comparti conocimientos y de quienes se gan el respeto. Este encuentro tambin fue vital en la vida y futuro de Lee, pues fue Ed Parker quien le abri las puertas hacia Hollywood. Bruce sigui viajando repetidas veces a Oakland, a ensear Wing Chun a James Lee , e incluso pasaba all sus vacaciones entrenando con James. El grupo de Seattle segua creciendo y Taky Kimura fue tomando mayor responsabilidad, no en vano era el asistente instructor de Bruce Lee. Ante el xito, pens en ampliar los horizontes de su enseanza y soaba con una cadena degimnasios esparcida por toda el rea de California, as que propuso a James ser el instructor jefe del Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, en Oakland. James comparta con un alumno suyo, Al Novak, una academia llamada Hayward California, y pens en transformarla en un Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, convencido de que su alumno compartira los planes de conversin. Por aquella poca James pensaba en publicarle un libro a Bruce. Cuando las pruebas estuvieron listas le llam para que fuera a Oakland a revisarlas y en esta ocasin Bruce acudi acompaado de Taky Kimura. Los tres estuvieron entrenando en el garaje de James y Bruce se sorprendi de que James se adaptara tan bien a los movimientos del Chi Sao. Compensando las acciones de Taky con fuerza, James haba desarrollado su cuerpo gracias al culturismo, incluso haba entrenado con Steve Reeves, el famoso culturista Mr. Universo que tantas pelculas protagonizara como Hrcules. James se haba basado siempre en la fuerza para ser efectivo y le costaba adaptarse a los nuevos conceptos de suavidad. El libro finalmente estuvo preparado poco antes de que Bruce regresara a Hong Kong a visitar a su familia y se titul Chinese Gung Fu, The Philosophical Art of Self Defense. Una vez en Hong Kong, Bruce aprovech para visitar a su maestro, Yip Man. Pasaron muchas horas tomando t, en las que Yip Man informaba a Bruce sobre materias que desconoca, como historia de arte, etc. Bruce pensaba que Yip era ya muy viejo para defenderse, pero durante esta estancia en Hong Kong se dio cuenta de que todava estaba en forma a pesar de su edad, sobre todo despus de haber practicado Chi Sao con l. All en la escuela de Yip Man tambin pudo ver a otros compaeros suyos, como William Cheung, que estaba de vacaciones pues viva en Australia desde los 18 aos. Bruce pas cinco semanas en Hong Kong, tras las cuales regres a Seattle para continuar con sus enseanzas. Al regresar a Seattle le esperaba una carta de reclutamiento y empez a temer por su futuro si tena que ir al ejrcito. Pidi consejo a James para evitar ir a filas, aunque pareca muy difcil puesto que personas giles y fuertes es precisamente lo que demanda el Ejrcito. Bruce acudi al examen mdico en el Centro de Reclutamiento, y para su sorpresa fue declarado no apto para el servicio militar por tener el arco del pie demasiado pronunciado, un defecto congnito tena un testiculo ms alto que el otro- y ser corto de vista.

Oakland
En Seattle, conoci a una chica llamada Linda Emery durante el transcurso de una de sus clases, a la que haba sido invitada por uno de sus amigos y finalmente se cas con ella. Pens que Seattle no le ofreca las posibilidades que le podra ofrecer California y pens en trasladarse all. Ello significaba que tendra que pedir a Linda que se casase con l, o que lo olvidase para siempre. Linda acept, se casaron y ese mismo da partieron hacia Oakland. Bruce y Linda vivieron en el domicilio de James Lee y su esposa, Bruce no tena dinero para alquilar un apartamento, y hasta que pusieran en funcionamiento el gimnasio no tena la posibilidad de mantener a su recin estrenada familia, con lo que dependan econmicamente de James, que estaba encantado de tenerles en su casa. Consiguieron un local cuyo alquiler no era muy excesivo, para abrir su Kwoon, y se dispusieron a arreglarlo para comenzar cuanto antes con la escuela. No tardaron en llegar los primeros alumnos. Poco tiempo despus, le fue detectado un cncer a Katherine, la esposa de James Lee, del que morira ms tarde. Bruce intentaba que James no se sintiese deprimido, intent animarle ponindole un sistema de entrenamiento duro que no le permitiese estar continuamente pensando. [editar]Bruce

Lee: Estilo

El estilo de Bruce Lee sola realizarse entorno a patadas altas, todo lo contrario que el tambin actor Jackie Chan. Sin embargo, Bruce lleg a declarar que no existen distintos estilos de lucha, sino un solo estilo de luchar con la anatoma del cuerpo humano ( dos piernas, dos brazos...). No obstante, Jackie Chan afirmara la existencia de distintos estilos de lucha.

Bruce Lee: Los desafos reales

Lee recibi muchos desafos durante su vida pero slo acept algunos de ellos. Durante sus estudios secundarios en la escuela tcnica Tomas Edison, un compaero de estudios japons de Bruce Lee llamado Yoichi, quien era en ese momento cinturn negro de Karate, sola molestarlo con gestos y miradas y luego desafindolo abiertamente en pblico dondequiera que ste realizara demostraciones de Kung Fu. Acorde a lo que Taky Kimura ha relatado en una entrevista realizada por Paul Bax (The Seattle Years:The Taky Kimura Interview) Ambos iban al mismo colegio en Seattle. Y siempre que Bruce hiciera una demostracin este tipo lo tomaba a personal (...) en exhibiciones l se levantaba y desafiaba a Bruce abiertamente en el escenario. Finalmente lleg el punto donde Bruce tuvo que decirle que si segua as tendran que arreglar esta situacin. Por supuesto, el karateka estaba listo y Bruce le dijo "Te lo dir directamente, me ests desafiando, cierto?", el karateka japons (que luego sera el sensei Yoichi Nakachi) respondi "S, te estoy desafiando". Entonces decidieron ir a un campo de handball local y encerrarse all. Cuando comenzaron, el karateka abri el combate con una patada que Bruce bloque y luego lo golpe con puos directos a travs de todo el predio. Cuando dio contra la pared y estaba cayendo, Bruce lo patea. Todo termin en once segundos. Despus de eso este tipo quiso hacerse miembro de nuestra clase. Quera hacerse discpulo de Bruce. Para mostrarte qu clase de tipo era Bruce, l lo dej ir a nuestra clase por un perodo, despus de lo cual el karateka, no se sabe bien por qu, seguramente por la humillacin que implicaba, no volvi a aparecer (The Seattle Years:The Taky Kimura Interview). El relato de este combate tambin se encuentra hecho por Jesse Glover, el primer estudiante de Bruce Lee, quien hizo de rbitro de este encuentro, relatado en el libro Bruce Lee between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do de 1976, donde, segn relata Glover, el karateka ya en el suelo, tras recibir la patada que le desfigurara el rostro pregunt preocupado por

cunto haba durado en el combate y Ed Hart, su compaero tambin presente y encargado de controlar el tiempo, ms piadoso, le duplic y le dijo 22 segundos. En 1964, a los 24 aos de edad Bruce Lee se vio retado oficialmente a un desafo frente a la comunidad tradicional china la cual, segn se relata, no estaba de acuerdo con que Bruce enseara Kung fu a estudiantes que no fueran chinos. Segn coment oficialmente su viuda, Linda Lee Cadwell (Documental Bruce Lee: A warrior's Journey) la comunidad china ret a Lee a un combate cuyo resultado decidira si Bruce poda seguir enseando a extranjeros. Entonces se fij una fecha para el combate (la fecha fue en diciembre de 1964) el cual tendra lugar en la sala donde el pequeo dragn daba sus clases. Llegada la fecha la comunidad del barrio chino trajo a un reconocido exponente de Kung Fu de San Francisco en aquel entonces (Luego sera el gran maestro de artes marciales chinas Wong Jack Man) entrenado en el estilo Shaolin norteo, el cual posee un ms amplio repertorio de tcnicas de patadas que el Wing Chun utilizado por Bruce Lee. El luchador en representacin de la comunidad tradicional china de San Francisco pretendi poner ciertas reglas al combate, como no pegar en los genitales ni en los ojos, pero Lee le indic que las condiciones las pona l, quien era el retado, y el combate se desarrollara sin regla alguna. Hay varias versiones de este encuentro. Segn Linda Lee, quien relata en el libro que escribi sobre la vida de su esposo (Bruce Lee: The man only I knew) y en concordancia a lo que declar el propio Bruce Lee en una entrevista radial, el luchador chino luego de un intercambio de golpes, comenz a dar vueltas en crculo por el gimnasio tras lo cual Bruce lo alcanza, lo derriba al piso dndole golpes de puos en la cabeza, y mantenindolo all con una tcnica de inmovilizacin le pregunta, tres veces, en idioma cantons: Es suficiente? ante lo cual aquel responde es suficiente. Otras explicaciones dicen que el desafiante comenz atacando y Lee respondi con tres puos rectos, aunque slo el primero impact claramente en su mandbula, ste se puso a una distancia a la que no pudiera llegar Bruce Lee con sus cortos desplazamientos, un golpe por parte de aqul alcanz a Bruce en la parte izquierda de su mandbula, esto lo hizo reaccionar que se lanz tras su enemigo que pareca huir. Bruce Lee lo persigue a travs de toda la sala, golpendole en la espalda y en la cabeza (producto de esto l relata en la mencionada entrevista radial que se le haban hinchado los puos, comenzando as a darse cuenta de las limitaciones del Wing Chun). El hombre intentaba no darle la cara, giraba para darle la espalda, pero finalmente le acorral y ste se rindi. Posteriormente Bruce se dio cuenta de que la pelea haba durado ms de lo que pensaba y que estaba exhausto, por lo que decidi mejorar su condicin fsica para tener mayor resistencia. Por otra parte decidi modificar el estilo para que funcionara mejor contra golpes circulares y poseer una amplia gama de desplazamientos rpidos. Tambin empez a entrenar sus puos con bolsas de arena dura y piedras. A medida que iba haciendo modificaciones en el estilo comenz a desvincularse del Kung Fu y a llamar al nuevo estilo Jun Fan Gung fu (el Kung Fu de Bruce Lee) que tres aos ms tarde lo rotulara como Jeet Kune Do, ms modificado an. 1973, Rodaje de Operacin Dragon: Durante el rodaje de Operacin Dragon (Enter The Dragon), la ltima pelcula que film Bruce Lee finalizada slo semanas antes de su muerte, tanto Fred Weintraub (productor), Bob Wall (co-protagonista) y Bolo Yeung (co-protagonista) han relatado pblicamente los constantes desafos a Bruce Lee detrs de cmaras por parte de los extras contratados para la pelcula, muchos de los cuales eran artemarcialistas miembros de las tradas chinas. Bruce por

lo general trataba de ignorarlos en su mayora pero en algunas ocasiones le era difcil. Bob Wall, co-protagonista de la pelcula, relata un reto que presenci (The curse of the dragon, 1993) el cual Bruce Lee a pesar de la prdida de tiempo de trabajo que implicaba lo acept: El hombre se present de un salto y era mucho ms grande que Bruce, y definitivamente quera hacerle dao, pero comenz la pelea y Bruce empez a golpearlo, a hacerle llaves en los pies, llaves en las manos, jugaba con l. Bruce no era malo pero s le demostr quin mandaba. El jefe Bruce era un excelente luchador callejero... y luego terminaba y deca "adelante, vamos a trabajar" (...), en este combate con el extra qued documentado "Bruce Lee literalmente barri el suelo con l" (The curse of the dragon, 1993). En un relato que hace Bolo Yeung (coprotagonista de esta pelcula) en La vida de Bruce Lee cuenta que un actor durante la filmacin de la pelcula, mientras Bruce Lee enseaba las coreografas a sus colegas, le haca comentarios indirectos y ofensivos a ste detrs de cmaras hacindole entender que su estilo de lucha no era real. Ante esto Yeung relata en cantons: Cuando filmbamos Operacin Dragn un doble desafi a Li Siu Lung ("El pequeo dragn" en chino) quera probar el Jeet Kune Do, y Bruce le dice de acuerdo, ven, baja, entonces "se movieron un poco hasta que recibi una patada de Bruce Lee. Eso fue suficiente. Y todo termin... muy rpido". El productor de Operacin Dragn, Fred Weintraub, quien estuvo constantemente con Bruce Lee durante la filmacin tambin relata en Bruce Lee, La maldicin del dragn,1993 sobre desafos que hubo durante el rodaje: Yo estaba preocupado de que alguien saliera lastimado porque haba desafos todos los das(...), ellos tenan un rito en que se desafiaban donde cruzaban las manos y golpeaban los pies (...)pero las peleas por suerte no duraban mucho porque Bruce pa, pa, pa! los noqueaba y segua adelante. Tambin se pueden encontrar otros relatos presenciales como el de Paul Heller, productor de Operacin Dragn, quien refiere a Bruce Lee como alguien increblemente rpido.(The curse of the Dragon). En la entrevista realizada a Bruce Lee entre 1971 y 1973 por su discpulo George Lee, [(SABER NO ES SUFICIENTE - Entrevista a Bruce Lee]) se menciona a un artista marcial llamado Lo Tai Chuen quien desafi a combate a Bruce Lee abiertamente por los medios. [editar]Cine En febrero de 1965 Linda tuvo a su primer hijo, Brandon, y seis das ms tarde Li Hoi Chuen, muri en Hong Kong. Bruce march inmediatamente para asistir al funeral y a su regreso a Oakland recibi una llamada de Ed Parker para que hiciera una prueba en Hollywood. William Dozier productor ejecutivo de las serie de televisin Batman haba visto una pelcula en Sper 8 de la demostracin que Bruce haba dado en Long Beach, invitado por Ed Parker. Dozier saba de Bruce gracias a la mediacin de un amigo comn de l y Parker, (el peluquero de Hollywood que haba trabajado para Sharon Tate, que fue asesinada en la matanza supuestamente dirigida por Charles Manson). Dozier llam a Bruce; tan slo una semana despus, march para Hollywood y realiz la prueba. En un primer momento se pens en l para que hiciera de hijo del detective chino Charlie Chan. Bruce firm una opcin de contrato y comenz inmediatamente las clases de arte dramtico. Pero las esperanzas de Bruce se desvanecieron cuando recibi la llamada de Dozier comunicndole que la serie se haba suspendido. En febrero del ao siguiente Bruce recibi una llamada en la que se le comunicaba que haba sido seleccionado para el papel de "Kato" en una nueva serie de televisin titulada The Green Hornet, (El avispn verde). Una vez firmado el contrato empaquet sus cosas y se march con su familia a Los ngeles. James se entristeci mucho, pero Bruce le prometi visitarle tan a menudo como pudiera para entrenar con l y sus alumnos. En 1967, Bruce abri su tercer Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, que

fue su ltimo Kwoon. Estaba situado en el 628 de College Street, en el barrio chino de Los ngeles, y, contrariamente a los que tuvo en Seattle y Oakland, ste no tuvo ninguna marca identificativa, incluso para mantener el anonimato las ventanas se pintaron. Bruce no necesitaba el gimnasio para vivir, pues, afortunadamente, poda hacerlo de sus apariciones en televisin y cine. As que de este modo la gente del Chinatown eran seleccionados cuidadosamente entre artistas marciales con talento y slo se les permiti el paso a algunos artistas y gente relacionados con el mundo del espectculo que Bruce haba conocido, como Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Stirling Siliphant, incluso Kareem Abdul Jabbar. A Bruce no le gustaban las clases cargadas de gente, l pretenda que las clases fueran lo ms parecido al entrenamiento personal, pona el ejemplo de un entrenador de boxeo que slo poda entrenar a dos o tres como mximo si quera que el boxeador le respondiera arriba en el cuadriltero. Fue por ello que rechaz la oferta de fundar una cadena de gimnasios con el nombre de Kato. Una productora norteamericana le ofreci un papel en la serie televisiva Kung Fu pero a despecho de Lee, ya que particip en la idea original de la serie, al final se design a David Carradine para el papel, siendo discriminado por su ascendencia china no bien vista en los foros estadounidenses. En 1971, estando de visita en Hong Kong, el productor Raymond Chow, de la Golden Harvestofreci a Bruce la participacin en uno de sus proyectos cinematogrficos. En ese momento decide ir a vivir a Hong Kong, y pide a Taky Kimura ( responsable de la escuela de Seattle), a James Lee (responsable de la escuela de Oakland) y a Dan Inosanto (responsable de la escuela de Los ngeles), que cierren sus actividades, y que no se dediquen ms a ensear comercialmente lo que les haba enseado. La primera pelcula que realiz en esta etapa en Hong Kong se llam The Big Boss (Kung Fu a muerte en Bangkok o El Gran Jefe) y fue de inmediato un tremendo xito en Hong Kong acopiando beneficios de millones de dlares. Bruce Lee se gan la cspide de la popularidad china quien le consideraba un hroe nacional. Inmediatamente particip en su segunda pelcula de artes marciales llamada "Fist of Fury" ( Furia Oriental o Puos de Furia) donde se explot la supuesta superioridad del Kung Fu sobre elKarate japons como una forma de conjurar el sentimiento de inferioridad chino frente a los japoneses. El xito logrado en esta pelcula super toda expectativa y Bruce Lee se transform en una consolidada estrella de pelculas de artes marciales. En 1972, fue actor, guionista, coproductor y director en la pelcula "Way of the Dragon" (El furor del Dragn o el Camino del Dragn) grabada en Roma junto a Chuck Norris, siete veces campon mundial de Tang Soo Do. La pelcula fue otro xito de taquilla dentro del circuito chino, ya que Bruce no quiso que saliera de l. Esta pelcula es considerada un clsico de las artes marciales y la lucha en el Coliseo es una de las ms memorables de la filmografa de Bruce Lee, es conocida como el combate del siglo. Como dato curioso en el tema central de la banda sonora, l se encarg de tocar la percusin. En el mismo ao, en plena fama, es editor tcnico de un libro enteramente dedicado al Wing Chun, escrito por el nico de los tres alumnos a quien Bruce Lee certific para ensear su visin de las artes marciales, que tena ascendencia china James Yim Lee. J. Lee aprendi su Wing Chun de Bruce Lee, y en el libro solamente aparecen fotos de personas de origen chino, entre ellos Ip Man (al cual se agradece), Ted Wong y el propio Bruce Lee. Sin embargo, una nueva oferta, coparticipativa entre una productora estadounidense y china para desarrollar la pelcula "Enter the Dragon" (Operacin Dragn) le fue ofrecida a Lee, quien

acept con entusiasmo como codirector de las escenas de lucha y actor principal. En esta pelcula Bruce Lee se granje una fama pstuma entre el pblico estadounidense y es considerada su obra cumbre. Fue finalizada en abril de 1973, 4 meses antes de su muerte. La pelcula fue exhibida un par de meses despus con un xito de taquilla abrumador. En 1973 Lee trabaj en una pelcula que quedara inconclusa. Slo estn rodados 40 minutos, llamada " Game of Death" (Juego de la Muerte) junto a sus amigos y discpulos Dan Inosanto yKareem Abdul-Jabbar. Cronolgicamente, sta sera su ltima pelcula debido a su prematura y polmica muerte. El largometraje fue terminado cinco aos ms tarde por la Golden Harvest, haciendo uso de un doble y notorios -hasta burdos- montajes, y aadiendo 11 minutos del rodaje inicial.

Muerte

El 20 de julio de 1973, Bruce lee se dirige al apartamento de la actriz china Betty ting pei, para cumplir una cita con el productor Raymond Chow, el objetivo era hablar de la continuacin de la pelcula Game of death, Estando en el apartamento de su amiga y actriz Betty Ting Pei, alrededor de las 14 horas de ese da, Lee sinti un profundo y agobiante dolor de cabeza que le hizo tumbarse en la cama y Betti, segn su versin que es considerada como oficial, le proporcion un analgsico que le sumi en una profunda inconsciencia de la cual ya no volvera, entrando en estado de coma. Fue llevado a unhospital, en el que ingres sin vida. Actualmente todava se especula sobre las causas de su muerte, ya que nadie sabe an por qu fue. La ms posible es que pudo haber muerto por una complicacin derivada de un ataque de epilepsia, efecto que slo despus de 20 aos de su muerte la medicina parece haber descubierto. Filkins, unmdico de gran prestigio afirmaba que la explicacin oficial en torno a la causa de la muerte de Lee es errnea, puesto que en las reacciones alrgicas a los frmacos se suelen presentar indicios como hinchazn irregular en el cuello o insuficiencia respiratoria. En vez de eso, Filkins piensa que Lee muri a causa de un sndrome de muerte sbita inesperada, derivada de la epilepsia Sudep, sndrome que no se identific hasta 1995. Lee tena casi 33 aos y los mdicos aseguraron que su cuerpo (admirablemente formado) no representaba ms de 18-20 aos biolgicos. Recientemente se ha dicho como otra causa atribuible, que su deceso se debi a un aneurisma que le provoc el dolor de cabeza y finalmente lo llev a la muerte. Su muerte sorprendi al pblico de Hong Kong y en un principio

se atribuy como falsa la informacin. Se ha sabido que antes de su muerte Lee haba sufrido unos extraos desmayos anteriores de los que se haba recuperado. La autopsia de Lee demostr que su cerebro se haba inflamado masivamente comprimindose dentro de la caja craneal. 20.000 personas se congregaron ante la fachada del establecimiento de Pompas Fnebres de Kowloon donde estaba su atad de bronce, abierto por la parte superior, que haba costado 40.000 dlares. El funeral que sigui fue apotesico en Hong Kong; la multitud de admiradores fue tan impresionante que el ambiente donde estaba el atad de Lee era sofocante. En el traslado de la caja fnebre de Hong Kong a Seattle, donde al fin fue sepultado, tuvo que cambiarse la caja fnebre, ya que con lahumedad o condensacin, el forro blanco con que estaba envuelta la caja se ti de azul, debido al traje de Bruce. Fue enterrado en Lake View en Capitol Hill, Seattle, EE. UU. Tuvo con su esposa Linda Emery, ahora conocida como Linda Lee Cadwell, dos hijos: Shannon Lee y Brandon Lee. Este ltimo falleci en pleno comienzo de su carrera artstica durante un accidente en la filmacin de la pelcula The Crow (El Cuervo).

Entrenamiento
Bruce Lee anotaba en su agenda los entrenamientos de cada da para comparar resultados y mejorar continuamente. Entrenaba diariamente unas 8 horas, sus actividades eran: ejercicios decalistenia, correr diariamente unos 16 km y la perfeccin de un determinado golpe o tcnica. Quera ser siempre ms fuerte y elstico, tena una talla de 1,71 metros (5`7") y pesaba 61,1 kg.

Estatua de Bruce Lee en el Paseo de las estrellas deHong Kong.

En un momento crucial de su vida, se lesion seriamente la espalda, un hueso sacro, por lo que tuvo que someterse a un tedioso proceso de rehabilitacin y a permanecer inactivo mucho tiempo, alrededor de seis meses, que dedic a estudiar y a componer notas que se editarn luego de su muerte como "El Tao del Jeet Kune Do". Aunque por alguna razn, a pesar de luego tener los medios para ello, en vida l nunca las public. Y aunque el mdico le dijo que tal vez no volvera a caminar, no slo volvi a caminar, sino que sus patadas volvieron a ser las de antes y continu con su arduo entrenamiento en busca de la perfeccin en el arte del combate. El duro entrenamiento le permiti realizar sin trucos, proezas fsicas proverbiales e increbles, entre las cuales destacan: hacer un gran nmero de flexiones sobre dos dedos de su mano, derribar a luchadores que le doblaban en peso con su patada lateral, desarrollar una potencia

de golpe a muy corta distancia (el golpe de puo de una pulgada), realizar una gil e impecable patada voladora, una tremenda velocidad instantnea de golpes de puo (30 centsimas de segundo) debido a la cual sus sparring simplemente no vean el golpe que les derribaba, adems de una destreza en armas tales como el nunchaku, el Bo (palo largo) y la tcnica filipina de dos palos,Kali. Segn l deca:
Yo no represento un estilo sino todos los estilos. Ustedes no saben lo que yo estoy a punto de hacer, pero yo tampoco lo s. Mi movimiento es el resultado del vuestro y mi tcnica es el resultado de vuestra tcnica.

Lee adopt adems algunos esquemas de la esgrima, la lucha grecorromana y el boxeo en su estilo, aunque l no lo quera encasillar y llamarlo estilo, sino que deca que no exista ni tena por qu existir un estilo predefinido para pelear. Lee desarrollo adems tcnicas de agarre, candados al cuello y adopt desplazamientos de boxeo basndose en films de Cassius Clay. La perfeccin por la tcnica y el equilibrio, la solvencia y la coordinacin, la impresionante rapidez de sus fintas, su admirable desarrollo fsico y dominio corporal no ha tenido rivales que lo superen desde 1960 en su desempeo esttico hasta hoy. Sus imgenes, carisma e influencia en las artes marciales lo han transformado en un clsico. En vida tuvo a grandes estrellas del cine como sus seguidores y tambin alumnos suyos durante su estancia en Estados Unidos, entre ellos: James Coburn, Steve McQueen, Dan Inosanto, quienes fueron adems sus amigos. [editar]Legado Sin duda, uno de sus legados ms importantes es la apertura hacia occidente de las artes marciales chinas y la divulgacin del Kung F en su verdadera dimensin, las cuales antes de l, eran desconocidas y slo predominaban en pelculas fantasiosas con acrobacias producidas, con el Karate y el Judo como nicas tcnicas orientales conocidas en occidente. La industria cinematogrfica china explot hasta la saciedad la venta comercial insatisfecha de un pblico occidental y oriental vido de ver pelculas del gnero y estilo planteado en las famosas pelculas de Raymond Chow, donde actu Bruce Lee. Despus de su muerte, la industria china coloc a cuanto artista marcial que fuera parecido fsicamente a Lee y a su tcnica para hacer films de dudosa calidad guionstica y expresin tcnica para sobreexplotar con su figura el mercado cinematogrfico, incluso se lleg a colocar mscaras de Lee en tamao natural sobre el rostro del actor. Las revistas dedicadas a artes marciales tambin cayeron en la sobreexplotacin de la figura de Lee, develando sus tcnicas, entrenamiento, vida personal, golpes, pensamientos, etc. Sus ideas, filosofa y modo de entrenamiento son revisadas y aplicadas en muchas de las academias de artes marciales modernos en todo el mundo. Hoy en da es posible encontrar en muchas academias de artes marciales su retrato o afiches de su persona. En la entrevista [cita requerida] para Pierre Berton, Lee declar :
Para m, en ltima instancia, las artes marciales significan expresarse honestamente a s mismo. Ahora, eso es muy difcil de hacer.

Maxwell Pollard, en un artculo escrito para la revista Black Belt, transcribe una declaracin de [cita requerida] Lee al respecto de su formacin :

Yo debo mi actual estado de desarrollo a mi entrenamiento previo en el estilo Wing Chun (), un gran estilo. Esa arte me fue enseada por el seor Ip Man, el actual lder del Sistema Ving Tsun en Hong Kong, donde fui criado.

Se puede afirmar que Lee, por su renombre, fue responsable de la propagacin internacional del sistema Wing Chun (), que, junto al Tai chi Chuan, es el estilo de Kung Fu ms practicado del mundo. Muchos de los actuales cultores de las artes marciales alguna vez al menos hacen un revisionismo comparativo de su tcnica de combate y la de Lee, de tal modo de aplicar alguno de sus conceptos a su propio estilo. Antes de Lee, solo existan pelculas fantasiosas acerca del Kung F y otras artes marciales; despus de Lee, las pelculas siguen la estela dejada por este singular artista marcial. Su hijo primognito Brandon Lee intent seguir los pasos de su padre participando en films marciales occidentales, pero en uno de ellos, llamada "The Crow" (1994), tuvo un accidente y muri por negligencia de terceros, al recibir un balazo en una escena. Sobreviven su esposa Linda Emery Lee Cadwell y su hija Shannon Emery Lee, quien ha participado en algunas pelculas, incluyendo una con el artista Jason Scott Lee, Dragn, la verdadera historia de Bruce Lee donde aparece en un cameo como cantante, tambin practica artes marciales y promueve la Fundacin Bruce Lee. Sin duda, muchos artistas marciales marcarn una moda en el celuloide; pero Bruce Lee y su legado permanecer por siempre en amplio espectro de las artes marciales como un hito imperecedero.

In the year of Dragon, and at the hour of the Dragon, between 5 and 8 am, born at Jackson Street San Francisco, on November 27, 1940. His father, Lee Hoi Chuen, was touring with a piece of China Cantonese Opera in the Americas, hence Bruce was born in San Francisco. Grace Ho, mother of Bruce, Sino-German descent [citation needed], put his boy named Lee Jun Fan, which means Protector of San Francisco, but during the first month was called the Little Phoenix, which in Chinese is a feminine name. Thereby intended to confuse evil spirits who steal from the first male after dark. Mary Glover was the nurse who gave it its English name, Bruce, whose existence he did not know until twelve years later when entering a Catholic school, La Salle in Hong Kong. His mother was Catholic. His first movie appearance, according to Bruce, was two months old and six also participated in Tears of San Francisco (San Francisco Tears) [citation needed]. In 1946, when Bruce had only 6 years was introduced in the film industry in Hong Kong thanks to family friends. After a short trial the boy was accepted. The film is titled Birth of Mankind (The Birth of Mankind) and it was a cliffhanger that was fashionable then in Hong Kong. Bruce then rolled thirteen other films of the same court, in all of them figured his stage name, Li Shiu Loong, which means Little Dragon. The Kid is the only film in which he worked with his father, but curiously does not involve the two in any scenes together. During his childhood, or rather his teens, Bruce was a gang member, was engaged in fighting with other gangs, carrying guns, chains. But one day he asked what would happen if he had the support of the band and get into a fight, then decided to learn Wing Chun style of Kung Fu. Although his first contact with martial arts was the hand of his father, Lee Hoi Chuen, who taught him the basics of Tai Chi Chuan, for the sole purpose of diverting him from the path of violence. [Citation needed] Bruce knew a boy his age or slightly older, William Cheung, who was always in fights and never lost. One day Bruce asked why and he said it was because of his art. William proposed to him to learn Wing Chun and Bruce agreed. Bruce's behavior when he first entered the academy of Yip Man was not all that should have been respectful, especially for a boy East, so Yip Man decided that Bruce was not able to learn an art as Wing Chun, and so notified by William Cheung. Bruce decided to return the next day with humility and respect, and Yip Man gave him a chance. [Citation needed] Bruce was three to four years learning Wing Chun under the tutelage of Yip Man, though it was the hand of his pupil and learned Wong Shun Leung. Bruce was enrolled in the English school in San Francisco, at that time had interscholastic tournaments because they were English schools, where tournaments were held Western boxing. Bruce decided to take part in one of them, held in the college of St. George, and won using known techniques, Wing Chun. [Citation needed] Return to United States At eighteen he left Hong Kong to move to their country of birth, United States, and claim their nationality. Some versions say that Bruce's father was forced to make this

decision because he feared that his son eventually joined the Chinese mafia, Chinese Triad. Thus, Bruce embarked on 3 December 1958 on the freighter Daisy May, a 3rd class ticket and $ 100. [Citation needed] The first city he visited was San Francisco, the city of his birth and where he was to claim his nationality. His father, Lee Hoi Chuen, contacted some relatives to Bruce could stay a while and in return Bruce had to work. The work did not like, because it was washing dishes, so I quickly left and began teaching in order to survive. He later moved to another state, Washington, to Seattle, where she would work in the restaurant of an old family friend, Ruby Chow. There Bruce Lee had installed a sack and a wooden dummy to train if time permitted, but the neighbors complained about the noise it made while training and had to quit. Having no friends, he began attending meetings of a Chinese society, where there were people who also practiced Kung Fu and other styles of northern China, where the predominant use of the legs, use Bruce unknown since the Wing Chun leg work to a very low level. The company decided to give a demonstration and so Bruce could know that would be one of his best friends here in Seattle, Jesse Glover. Jesse had always been interested in martial arts (judo had), but when he saw Bruce felt he had to train with him. Bruce accepted the proposal to teach. The first place where they trained was the dining room of the apartment of Jesse Glover. At its first meeting Bruce asked Jesse to show him all he knew of Kung Fu. Jesse had never trained with a Kung Fu master, all the knowledge they had brought them out of a book by James Lee Yimm. Bruce asked him to show him the book and after spending some time leafing through him that the style shown Hung belonged to the family and that he had occasionally practiced in Hong Kong, it was a style known there. Later, Jesse had the opportunity to travel to California with a couple of friends. The main objective was to visit Jesse James Y. Lee. Once in Oakland, was the home of James and presented him that he knew from the book that James had written. He invited them to go and then began to show their knowledge. This visit would be decisive in the life of Bruce, it provided that Bruce Lee and James were known. Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute In Seattle, Bruce accepted a new student, it was Ed Hart, roommate Jesse Glover and this was the spark for Bruce to accept more and more students, so Jesse and Ed Bruce convinced that COBRASE by their classes. Soon they had to find a place, which soon outgrew them. By that time he met Taky Kimura, who became the first assistant instructor Bruce Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, the name by which named his Kwoon. Joe Allan, a student of James Y. Lee, went to see Bruce. The year was 1962 and Bruce was studying philosophy at Seattle University. Bruce invited Joe to see some of the techniques of Wing Chun in the wooden mannequin was in the backyard Ruby Chow's restaurant. Joe Allan was impressed and thought it would happen to James Read as much if I saw it. After this, James called from Oakland to Bruce asking if he could pay a visit to teach some of his Kung Fu, accepted, seeing it as a good opportunity to spread his teachings. The next week went to Oakland, staying at the home of James.

There he had opportunity to meet with Wally Jay who could share knowledge and learn something about grappling techniques. James had his garage full of mechanisms to train invented by him. There were practicing and Bruce gave some suggestions on how to improve these devices. On a later trip Bruce met two other martial artists, which over time would be the most famous United States, Ralph Castro and Ed Parker, with whom he shared knowledge and those who earned the respect. This meeting was also vital in the life and future of Lee, it was Ed Parker who opened the doors to Hollywood. Bruce continued to travel repeatedly to Oakland to teach Wing Chun to James Lee, and even spent their holidays there training with James. The Seattle group kept growing and Tacky Kimura was taking more responsibility, not for nothing was the assistant instructor of Bruce Lee. Given the success, he thought about expanding the horizons of teaching and dreamed of a chain degimnasios scattered throughout the California area, so James proposed to be the head instructor of Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute in Oakland. James shared with his student, Al Novak, an academy called Hayward California, and thought about turning it into a Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, convinced that his students share conversion plans. At that time James thought issue you a book to Bruce. When the tests were ready was called to go to Oakland to review and this time Bruce came accompanied by Taky Kimura. The three were training in the garage of James and Bruce was surprised that James was so well adapted to the movements of Chi Sao. Compensating actions Taky hard, James had developed his body thanks to bodybuilding, including Steve Reeves had trained with the famous Mr. Universe bodybuilder star in many movies like Hercules. James had always relied on force to be effective and cost adapt to new concepts of softness. The book was finally prepared shortly before Bruce returned to Hong Kong to visit his family and was entitled Chinese Gung Fu The Philosophical Art of Self Defense. Once in Hong Kong, Bruce took the opportunity to visit his teacher, Yip Man spent many hours drinking tea, which Yip Man Bruce informed on matters know, like art history, etc.. Bruce felt that Yip was too old to defend himself, but during this stay in Hong Kong realized it was still in shape despite his age, especially after practicing Chi Sao with him. There in the school of Yip Man also saw another of his companions, as William Cheung, who was on holiday because she lived in Australia for 18 years. Bruce spent five weeks in Hong Kong, after which he returned to Seattle to continue his teachings. Upon returning to Seattle he expected a recruitment letter and began to fear for their future if they had to go to the army. James asked for advice to avoid going into the army, although it seemed very difficult because people agile and strong demand is precisely what the Army. Bruce attended the medical examination at the recruitment center, and to his surprise was declared unfit for military service to have the arch very pronounced, a birth defect, had a testicle higher than the other-and nearsightedness .

Oakland

In Seattle, he met a girl named Linda Emery during the course of one of his classes, which had been invited by one of his friends and eventually married her. He thought that Seattle did not offer the possibilities that could give California and thought of moving there. This meant I had to ask Linda to marry him or forget it forever. Linda agreed, married and the same day left for Oakland. Bruce and Linda lived in the home of James Lee and his wife, Bruce had no money to rent an apartment, and put into operation until the gym was not able to keep his newfound family, which were financially dependent on James , I was happy to have them at home. They got a room whose rent was not excessive, to open his Kwoon, and prepared to fix it as soon as possible to start school. They soon came the first students. Shortly thereafter, he was detected with cancer Katherine, wife of James Lee, who would die later. Bruce tried to get James did not feel depressed, tried to encourage putting a hard training system that it can not be constantly thinking. Bruce Lee Style The style of Bruce Lee used to be around high kicks, opposite the actor Jackie Chan. However, Bruce came to declare that there are different fighting styles, but one style of fighting with the anatomy of the human body (two legs, two arms ...). However, Jackie Chan assert the existence of different fighting styles. Bruce Lee: The real challenges Lee received many challenges during his life but only accepted some of them. During his secondary education at Thomas Edison Technical School, a Japanese classmate Bruce Lee called "Yoichi" who was now a black belt in karate, he would bother with gestures and glances, and then challenging him openly in public wherever such conduct demonstrations of Kung Fu. To the best Taky Kimura has told in an interview conducted by Paul Bax (The Seattle Years: The Taky Kimura Interview) "Both went to the same school in Seattle. And if Bruce did a show it took such personnel (...) in exhibitions he stood up and openly challenged Bruce on stage. Finally the point where Bruce had to say that if he so would have to fix this situation. Of course, the karateka was ready and Bruce said "I'll tell you directly, you are challenging me, right?", The Japanese karate (later Yoichi Nakachi Sensei) responded "Yes, I am challenging." So they decided to go to a local handball field and enclosed there. When started, the karateka opened the match with a kick that Bruce blocked and then hit him with fists direct throughout the property. When you hit the wall and was falling, Bruce kicks him. It ended in eleven seconds. After that these would become a member of our class. I wanted to become a disciple of Bruce. To show what kind of guy was Bruce, he let him go to our class for a period, after which the karateka, not sure why, probably because the humiliation involved, did not reappear "(The Seattle Years : The Taky Kimura Interview). The story of this battle is also made by Jesse Glover, the first student of Bruce Lee, who acted as referee of this meeting, recounted in the book "Bruce Lee Between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do" in 1976, where, as recounted Glover, the karateka already on the ground after receiving the kick that disfigured his face asked him concerned about how much he had endured in combat and Ed Hart, his

partner also present and responsible for controlling the time, more pious, he doubled and said "22 seconds". In 1964, the 24-year-old Bruce Lee was officially challenged a challenge to the traditional Chinese community which, as recorded, did not agree with that Bruce taught Kung Fu to students who were not Chinese. According to official said his widow, Linda Lee Cadwell (documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey) Chinese community challenged Lee to a fight whose outcome would decide whether Bruce could continue to teach foreigners. Then set a date for the bout (the date was December 1964) which would take place in the room where the little dragon gave his classes. Arrival date the Chinatown community brought a renowned exponent of Kung Fu in San Francisco at the time (then would be the great Chinese martial arts master Wong Jack Man) trained in Northern Shaolin style, which has a wider repertoire techniques of Wing Chun kicks that used by Bruce Lee. The wrestler representing the traditional Chinese community in San Francisco tried to put some rules to combat, as not to hit in the genitals or eyes, but Lee said the conditions he put them, who was challenged, and the combat develop without any rules. There are several versions of this game. According to Linda Lee, who relates in his book on the life of her husband (Bruce Lee: The man only I Knew) and according to what Bruce Lee himself said in a radio interview, the Chinese fighter after an exchange of blows, began to spin in a circle around the gym after which Bruce hits it, knocking it to the floor giving fist blows to the head, and holding it there with an immobilization technique asks three times, Cantonese-language " Is it enough? "to which he replies," is enough. " Other explanations say that the challenger began attacking and Lee responded with three straight cuffs, but clearly only the first hit on his jaw, he stood at a distance at which Bruce Lee could not reach their short shifts, blow by Bruce hit it on the left side of his jaw, that he reacted that was launched after fleeing enemy appeared. Bruce Lee follows him across the room, hitting him in the back and head (the result of this he tells in that radio interview that had swollen wrists, thus beginning to realize the limitations of Wing Chun) . He tried not to face him, turned to give back, but finally cornered him and he surrendered. Bruce later realized that the fight had lasted longer than I thought and I was exhausted, so we decided to improve their fitness for added strength. On the other hand decided to change the style to work better shock circular and have a wide range of fast movement. He also began to train their fists hard sand bags and stones. As I was making changes to the style began to disengage from the Kung Fu and call the new style Jun Fan Gung Fu (Kung Fu Bruce Lee) that three years later he rotulara as Jeet Kune Do, more modified yet.

1973, shootings "Operation Dragon":

During the filming of Operation Dragon (Enter The Dragon), the last film that Bruce Lee shot finished just weeks before his death, both Fred Weintraub (producer), Bob Wall (co-star) and Bolo Yeung (co-star) have publicly reported the continuing challenges to Bruce Lee behind the scenes by the extras hired for the film, many of whom were martial artists members of the Chinese Triads. Bruce was usually ignore them mostly but sometimes it was difficult. Bob Wall, co-starring in the film, tells a challenge that saw (The Curse of the Dragon, 1993) which Bruce Lee despite the loss of work time involving accepted: "The man presented with a bound and was much bigger than Bruce, and definitely want to hurt him, but Bruce started the fight and began to beat him, to make keys on your feet, keys in hand, playing with him. Bruce was not bad but it showed him who was boss. Chief Bruce was an excellent street fighter ... and then finished and said "go ahead, we will work" (...) in this struggle was documented with the extra "Bruce Lee literally swept the floor with him '" (The Curse of the Dragon, 1993). In a story that makes Bolo Yeung (co-starring in this film) in The Life of Bruce Lee that an actor during the filming of the film, while Bruce Lee teaches the choreography to his colleagues, he made offensive comments to this indirect behind the scenes making him understand that his fighting style was not real. At this Yeung told in Cantonese: "When we filmed the Dragon Double Li Siu Lung challenged (" Little Dragon "in Chinese) wanted to test the Jeet Kune Do and Bruce tells him agree, come, down, then" moved a bit until he got a kick out of Bruce Lee. That was enough. And it all ended ... very fast. '" The producer of the Dragon, Fred Weintraub, who was constantly with Bruce Lee during the filming also told in Bruce Lee, The Curse of the Dragon, 1993 on challenges that took place during the filming: "I was worried that someone will get hurt because there were challenges every day (...), they had a ritual where they are challenged and beat his hands crossed feet (...) but luckily the fight did not last long because Bruce pa, pa, pa! the knocking out and kept going. " You can also find other eyewitness accounts like Paul Heller, producer of the Dragon, who refers to Bruce Lee as someone "incredibly fast." (The Curse of the Dragon). In an interview with Bruce Lee between 1971 and 1973 by his disciple George Lee, [(KNOW IT IS NOT ENOUGH - Interview with Bruce Lee]) refers to a martial artist called "The Tai Chuen" who challenged Bruce Lee fight openly by the media. Film In February 1965, Linda had her first child, Brandon, and six days later, Lee Hoi Chuen, died in Hong Kong. Bruce left immediately for the funeral and on his return to Oakland received a call from Ed Parker to have a test in Hollywood. William Dozier executive producer of the television series Batman had seen a film in Super 8 show that Bruce had been in Long Beach at the invitation of Ed Parker. Dozier knew Bruce through the mediation of a mutual friend of he and Parker (Hollywood hairdresser who had worked for Sharon Tate, who was killed in the massacre allegedly led by Charles Manson). Dozier called Bruce, just a week later went to Hollywood and did the test. At first it was thought to make the son of Chinese detective Charlie Chan. Bruce signed a contract option and immediately started acting lessons. But hopes were dashed when Bruce got

the call informing him that the series Dozier was suspended. In February the following year Bruce received a call informing him that he had been selected for the role of "Kato" in a new television series The Green Hornet (The Green Hornet). After signing the contract packed his things and left with his family to Los Angeles. James is very sad, but Bruce promised to visit as often as I could to train with him and his students. In 1967, Bruce opened his third Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, which was his last Kwoon. It was located in 628 College Street, in Chinatown in Los Angeles, and, contrary to what was in Seattle and Oakland, he had no identification mark, even to maintain the anonymity the windows were painted. Bruce did not need the gym to live, because, fortunately, he could of his appearances in television and film. So this way the people of Chinatown were carefully selected among talented martial artists and only allowed the passage to some artists and people related to show business that Bruce was known as Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Stirling Siliphant, even Kareem Abdul Jabbar. A Bruce did not like the classes loaded with people, he claimed that the classes were the closest thing to personal training, gave the example of a boxing coach could only train two or three at most if you want the answer above boxer in the ring. And so he rejected the offer to establish a chain of gyms with the name of Kato. An American producer offered her a role in the TV series Kung Fu but in spite of Lee, as he participated in the original idea of the series, eventually appointed David Carradine in the role, being discriminated against by their Chinese ancestry not well seen Americans in the forums. In 1971, while visiting Hong Kong producer Raymond Chow, Bruce Golden Harvestofreci participation in one of his film projects. At that time you decide to live in Hong Kong, and requests Taky Kimura (responsible for the Seattle School), James Lee (Head of the School of Oakland) and Dan Inosanto (responsible for the school at Los Angeles), which close their activities, and not spend more commercially teach what they had taught. The first film made at this stage in Hong Kong called The Big Boss (Kung Fu to death in Bangkok or The Big Boss) and was immediately a huge success in Hong Kong collecting benefits of millions of dollars. Bruce Lee won the heights of popularity China who was considered a national hero. Immediately participated in his second martial arts movie called "Fist of Fury" (Fist of Fury Fists of Fury or) which exploited the supposed superiority of Kung Fu on elKarate Japanese as a way to conjure the feeling of inferiority Chinese against the Japanese. Success in this movie exceeded all expectations and Bruce Lee became an established star of martial arts films. In 1972, actor, screenwriter, co-producer and director in the movie "Way of the Dragon" (Dragon's wrath or the Way of the Dragon) recorded in Rome with Chuck Norris, seven times world champion Tang Soo Do. The film was another box office success in the Chinese circuit, as Bruce did not want to leave him. This film is considered a classic of martial arts and fight in the Coliseum is one of the most memorable films of Bruce Lee, is known as the battle of the century. A curious fact the central theme of the soundtrack, he was responsible for playing the drums.

In the same year, in full fame, is technical editor of a book entirely devoted to Wing Chun, written by one of the three students who certified to teach Bruce Lee vision of martial arts, who had Chinese ancestry James Yim Lee. J. Lee learned his Wing Chun to Bruce Lee, and only in the book are pictures of people of Chinese origin, including Ip Man (which is appreciated), Ted Wong and Bruce Lee himself. However, a new offer from a producer coparticipativa U.S. and China to develop the film "Enter the Dragon" (the Dragon) was offered to Lee, who accepted with enthusiasm as codirector of the fight scenes and actor. In this movie Bruce Lee won a posthumous fame among the American public and is considered his masterpiece. It was completed in April 1973, four months before his death. The film was shown a couple of months later with an overwhelming box office success. In 1973, Lee worked on a film that would be incomplete. Only 40 minutes are rolled, called "Game of Death" (Game of Death) with his friends and disciples Dan Inosanto yKareem Abdul-Jabbar. Chronologically, this would be his last film due to his untimely and controversial death. The film was completed five years later by Golden Harvest, using double-and notorious-to coarse-assemblies, and adding 11 minutes of initial run. Death On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee goes to the apartment of actress Betty Ting Pei China to keep an appointment with producer Raymond Chow, the aim was to discuss the continuation of the movie Game of Death, While in the apartment her friend and actress Betty Ting Pei, around 14 pm that day, Lee felt a profound and crippling headaches that made him lie down in bed and Betti, in the version that is considered official, gave him a painkiller I fell into a deep unconsciousness from which would never return, entering a coma. He was taken to unhospital, which entered lifeless. Currently there is still speculation about the causes of his death, since no one knows yet what it was. The chances are he could have died from a complication of a seizure, an effect only after 20 years of his death seems to have discovered medicine. Filkins, unmdico prestigious stated that the official explanation about the cause of Lee's death is wrong, as in allergic reactions to drugs are usually present evidence as irregular swelling in the neck or respiratory failure. Instead, Filkins thinks Lee died from a sudden unexpected death syndrome, derived from SUDEP epilepsy syndrome was not identified until 1995. Lee had almost 33 years and the doctors said his body (admirably formed) represented no more than 18-20 biological years. Recently it has been said as another cause attributable to his death was caused by an aneurysm that caused headaches and eventually led to death. His death shocked the public in Hong Kong and initially claimed to be false information. It was learned that before his death Lee had suffered previous fainting strangers who had recovered. The autopsy showed Lee that his brain had swollen massively compressed within the braincase. 20,000 people gathered at the front of the funeral establishment of Kowloon where his bronze coffin open at the top, which had cost $ 40,000. The funeral that followed was tremendous in Hong Kong, the crowd of fans was so impressive that the environment where it was Lee's coffin was suffocating. In the transfer of the Hong Kong Funeral box

to Seattle, where he was finally buried, had to change the funeral box, because with lahumedad or condensation, the white lining that the box was wrapped in blue stained due to the suit Bruce. He was buried in Lake View on Capitol Hill, Seattle, USA. States. He and his wife Linda Emery, now known as Linda Lee Cadwell, two sons, Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee. The latter died in the very beginning of his career during an accident filming the movie The Crow (The Crow). Training Bruce Lee wrote in his schedule workouts each day to compare results and continuous improvement. He trained daily for 8 hours, their activities were: decalistenia exercises, running about 16 miles daily and perfection of a particular stroke or technique. Always wanted to be stronger and more elastic, had a height of 1.71 meters (5 '7 ") and weighed 61.1 kg. At a crucial moment of his life, seriously injured his back, a sacrum, so he had to undergo a tedious rehabilitation process and remain idle long, about six months, which he dedicated to study and compose notes to be edited after his death as "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Although for some reason, despite then having the means to do so, in life he never published. And although the doctor said that might not walk again, not only walked again but his kicks were again obtained before and continued his arduous training in search of perfection in the art of combat. The hard training allowed him to make no tricks, and incredible physical feats proverbial, among which are: to make a large number of pushups on two fingers of your hand, shoot down fighters twice his weight with his side kick, developing a power of shot at close range (the punch of an inch), make a quick and flawless flying kick, a tremendous instantaneous velocity of punches (30 hundredths of a second) due to which their sparring just did not see the blow that they toppled, and a skill in weapons such as nunchaku, Bo (long stick) and the Philippine art of two sticks, Kali. As he said: "I do not represent a style but all styles. You do not know what I'm about to do, but I do not know either. My movement is the result of your and my technique is the result of your technique. " Lee also adopted some schemes fencing, wrestling and boxing in style, although he did not want to pigeonhole and call it style, but said that there was not had to exist a predefined style to fight. Lee also developing techniques for grip, locks the neck and took boxing movements based on films of Cassius Clay. The perfection of technique and balance, solvency and coordination, the breathtaking speed of his feints, his remarkable physical and bodily control has had rivals who exceed their performance from 1960 to date aesthetic. His images, charisma and influence in the martial arts have become a classic. In life he had a great movie stars and his followers and his students during their stay in the U.S., including: James Coburn, Steve McQueen, Dan Inosanto, who were also his friends.

Legacy Without doubt, one of his most important legacies is the opening to the West of Chinese martial arts and Kung Fu disclosure of its true dimension, which before him were unknown and only prevalent in fantasy movies with stunts produced, with the Karate and Judo as unique oriental techniques known in the West. China's film industry exploded endlessly unsatisfied commercial sale of Western and Eastern audiences eager to see films of the genre and style encountered in the famous films of Raymond Chow, Bruce Lee where he performed. After his death, put China's industry as a martial artist that was physically similar to Lee and his technique for making films of dubious quality and technical expression guionstica to overwork your figure the film market, it was even put on masks of Lee size on the face of the actor. Magazines dedicated to martial arts also fell in the overexploitation of the figure of Lee, revealing their techniques, training, personal life, hitting, thoughts, etc.. His ideas, philosophy and way of training are reviewed and applied in many modern martial arts academies worldwide. Today can be found in many martial arts academies his portrait or posters of him. In the interview to Pierre Berton, Lee said [citation needed]: For me, the ultimate martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, that's very hard to do. Maxwell Pollard, in an article written for the Black Belt, transcribe a statement from Lee about his training [citation needed]: I owe my present state of development prior to my training in Wing Chun style ( ), a great style. This art was taught to me by Mr. Ip Man, the current leader of the Ving Tsun System in Hong Kong, where I was raised. Arguably, Lee, for his popularity, was responsible for the international spread of Wing Chun ( ), which, along with Tai Chi Chuan, is the style of Kung Fu practiced in the world. Many current practitioners of the martial arts ever at least make a comparative revisionism his fighting technique and Lee, so applying some of its concepts to your own style. Before Lee, there were only fantasy movies about kung fu and other martial arts, after Lee, the film follows the trail left by this unique martial artist. His eldest son Brandon Lee tried to follow the footsteps of his father participating in martial Western films, but one of them, called "The Crow" (1994), had an accident and died for negligence of others, to being shot in a scene . Survived by his wife Linda Emery Lee Cadwell and daughter Shannon Lee Emery, who has participated in several films, including one with the artist Jason Scott Lee, Dragon, the true story of Bruce Lee where it appears in a cameo as a singer, also practices martial arts and promotes Bruce Lee Foundation. No doubt many will make a fashion martial artists in the film, but Bruce Lee and his legacy will remain forever in wide range of martial arts as a timeless landmark.